What if Support Role was Added to FFXIV?

[Shurrikhan]

Simple. It's not the direction the game has gone or is going. If you find encounter design dull, hackneyed, or boring; it is not a feeling that is shared across the entire playerbase.

Neither is your love for the present state of healing. Admittedly, we're therefore probably not going to see eye to eye on much that surrounds it.

Alas, this is about support tools anyways. The person you initially quoted asked for healers to have more of them (the intersection here), to which you responded that the addition was already made (despite its only ever having being reduced since Stormblood)... because healing. (?)

You talk about reinvigorating the game, but what exactly is and needs to be invigorated? Most people seem to want to revert FFXIV back to a state it was in.

Which is it, then? Do you want my opinion, or that of some ambiguous camp of "others"?

Many echo your thoughts, and I am not dismissing them. My indifference comes from a mindset that recognizes how impossible it is to make an entire mmo community happy, yet still putting in considerable effort to do so anyway.

You realize, though, that conflating critiques necessarily with some fatalistic extreme of "the MMO community is utterly unappeasable"... is dismissive, right?

I'm not asking to appease the entire MMO community at large across its every game. I'm noting that when development reduces things to its least common denominator alone, by taking the easy way time after time (repeatedly pulling the plug on an area of design instead of rectifying the particular issues behind some given attempt), the result is more often barren than polished.

I wasn't arguing about how powerful healers are. That would be you.

I haven't argued anything to do with the power of healers. My focus has been solely on gameplay, specifically in what can be done with/around Support tools.